SEMR vs. PD, FROG, DH, BIGC, EXFY, DAY, INFA, GTLB, PCTY, and DSGX
Should you be buying Semrush stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Semrush include PagerDuty (PD), JFrog (FROG), Definitive Healthcare (DH), BigCommerce (BIGC), Expensify (EXFY), Dayforce (DAY), Informatica (INFA), GitLab (GTLB), Paylocity (PCTY), and The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Semrush (NASDAQ:SEMR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Semrush has a net margin of 4.01% compared to Semrush's net margin of -18.98%. PagerDuty's return on equity of 6.05% beat Semrush's return on equity.
In the previous week, PagerDuty had 3 more articles in the media than Semrush. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PagerDuty and 3 mentions for Semrush. Semrush's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.20 indicating that PagerDuty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PagerDuty presently has a consensus target price of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 38.40%. Semrush has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.08%. Given Semrush's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Semrush.
PagerDuty received 103 more outperform votes than Semrush when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.32% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote while only 56.06% of users gave Semrush an outperform vote.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Semrush has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.9% of Semrush shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Semrush shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Semrush has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Semrush, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Semrush beats PagerDuty on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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